Portugal beats Serbia and continues to fight for a place at the 2023 Women’s World Cup
The Portuguese women’s football team won this Friday 2-1 in Serbia, in a game of the ninth and penultimate round of group H of qualifying for the 2023 World Cup, in the fight for a spot in the final stage of the competition.
In Stara Pazova, as hosts they opened the scoring by Andjela Frajtovic (six minutes), but the team led by Francisco Neto turned around through Joana Marchão (39) and Kika Nazareth (45+1), moving up, in this way, to the second place in the group, with 19 points, two behind the leader Germany (21), who play with the third on Saturday, and with another face to the Serbians (18),s.
In Turkey on Tuesday, Portugal will host Turkey, in Vizela, on Tuesday, on the same day that Germany, Bulgaria and Serbia play in Israel, with Bulgarians (without points of last visit), with Bulgarians (no last-visit points), last-visits (Thursdays, with nine) and Turkish (Wednesdays, with 10) no longer have any chance of qualifying.
Only the first August package between each of the nine groups qualifies directly for the 2023 World Cup, while the runners-up will have to play a ‘play-off’ to access the competition that will be played on July 20 and 20 of next year, in Australia. and in New Zealand.